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30 Patella depressa. Shell length 28mm. Mantle removed from viscera of male with gonads. Lleyn, Wales. September 2015.

1: long coiled intestine compacts faeces into firm strings that will not contaminate pallial gills.

2: digestive gland.

3: rectum.

4: course of radula between pair of purple-pink cartilage bolsters of odontophore; visible through translucent epithelium of head.

5: extra large muscle bundle in pedal-retractor muscle to pull down anterior of shell.

6: heart.

7: male gonads (testes).

8: opaque, pigmented chalky-white pallial tentacles.

9: translucent mantle-skirt.

10: black mantle covering pallial-groove.

 

SPECIES DESCRIPTION part A 1Pd flic.kr/p/BaSA3C

SPECIES DESCRIPTION part B 2Pd flic.kr/p/AfbFkR

Key id. features 3Pd flic.kr/p/Ay7bhf

OTHER SPECIES ALBUMS

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Uploaded on November 19, 2015
Taken on October 13, 2015